All manner of domestic items and appliances tightly wrapped in cross-stitched designs by Swiss-based artist Ulla Stina-Wikander: bringing symbolic functionality to a pastime traditionally regarded as (her words) kitsch and worthless.
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A cross-stitched ‘intervention’ on a wall in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal by artist and graphic design student Ana ‘Aheneah’ Martins consisting of 2300 screws and nearly 700m of yarn.
A celebration of the freedom of youth expressed by a digital image applied using an analogue medium.
More of her work here.
Retired domestic appliances, lovingly cross stitched with historical patterns with charmingly rick-racked edges by Swiss artist Ulla Stina Wikander.
Arquicostura – by Spanish designer Raquel Rodrigo – a combination of architetura (architecture) and costura (needlework) – floral cross stitch (toughened and scaled up using wire mesh and thick coloured string) pleasingly deployed on the streets of Madrid